SEO Content Marketing Roundup, Week Ending February 1st, 2012

In this week’s latest and greatest Web-writing news, all is relatively quiet on all fronts as marketers drop the SOPA bone and focus on Google+ and Search+: Content marketers discuss practicalities, strategy and channels; the SEO and search community find ways to either deal with, benefit from, or work around Google’s Search+; and social media marketers share ways to integrate the Google+ platform and use Pinterest. It’s definitely a you+ world out there, and it looks as though it’s here to stay…enjoy!

Content Marketing

Perhaps the most balanced and comprehensive post to come out all week about the Google+/Search+ hybrid is Lee Odden’s “Google+ Optimization vs. Community Building: Pros & Cons of Google SPYW” at Top Rank.

Level 343 posts a smart discussion about budgeting for online marketing and measuring ROI (bonus – an actual ROI formula) with “Marketing Online – What Was That ROI Formula Again?”

Jeff Bullas discusses five lessons from Coca-Cola’s new content marketing strategy (and builds on his “liquid content” thesis) at his blog.

Michael Kolowich shares ways to reduce your video content budget at Content Marketing Institute.

Building an online portfolio? Ann Smarty posts a detailed how-to on creating (and publicizing) a master feed of all your guest posts at SEO Smarty.

Heidi Cohen posts five quotes representing the “core principles of content marketing” from David Ogilvy, “the father of content marketing,” at her blog.

Andrew Dumont outlines five steps to “bootstrapping your PR efforts” at SEOmoz.

B2C (Business 2 Community) shows what black hat content marketing for SEO looks like.

Lee Odden shares five basic SEO troubleshooting tips for content marketers at Top Rank.

SEO & Search

Jason Cormier discusses “why your business needs to be on Google+ now” at Search Engine Watch.

Dr. Pete shares four ways to de-personalize Google (un-plus it) in your search at SEOmoz.

Nathan Safran discusses how Google’s Search+ could threaten its “core search business” at Search Engine Watch.

Kristi Hines lists 40 advanced and alternative search engines at KISSmetrics.

Danny Goodwin reports on Google’s new privacy policy, noting that it combines user data from all Google services, at Search Engine Watch.

Corey Eridon shares “Five Awesome Landing Page Lessons From Real Life Examples” at HubSpot.

Your local SEO checklist for 2012 is posted at Search Engine Guide.

For enterprise-level SEO, Brian Provost posts the ultimate guide to enterprise SEO (25 things to know before you take the plunge) at Search Engine Land.

Avinash Kaushik posts “Google Analytics Tutorial: 8 Valuable Tips to Hustle with Data,” aimed at inspiring the reader to get involved with analytics, at Occam’s Razor.

P.J. Fusco discusses how Google’s Search+ is changing SEO at Search Engine Watch.

Glenn Gabe discusses how Google’s Search+ could impact search engine marketing with seven examples, at Search Engine Journal.

So will Google be changing your titles and descriptions? Bill Slawski examines the question at SEO by the Sea.

Andy Komack poses three questions to three experts about mobile SEO at Blue Train Mobile.

Greg Sterling discusses the results of an eye- and click-tracking study conducted by Mediative, showing that customer reviews and images drive clicks in mobile users, at Search Engine Land.

Neil Patel discusses three ranking factors that matter (“but nobody seems to care about”) at Search Engine Journal.

Geoff Kenyon discusses avoiding over-optimization with targeted anchor text distribution at SEOmoz

George Aspland posts 12 steps to optimizing a webpage for organic keywords at Search Engine Land.

Melissa Fach posts “Klout Myth Busters: Thoughts from the Experts” at Search Engine Journal.

Finally, Ethan Lyon discusses finding guest post links via a custom Twitter search tool (that he made) at SEOmoz.

Social Media Marketing

The top 10 social media blogs of 2012 are posted at Social Media Examiner.

Google+ updates headlines Social Media Examiner’s weekly news.

Guillaume Bouchard posts a how-to on harmonizing Google+ with your other social platforms at Search Engine Watch.

Aaron Friedman discusses how G+ is not a Facebook killer and was never intended to be with “Google+ Growing Your Social Network: Quantity vs. Quality” at Search Engine Land.

Rebecca Corliss reports that LinkedIn is 277-percent more effective for lead generation than are Facebook and Twitter, at HubSpot.

Martin Solar posts an industry discussion of the “true nature” of social media ROI at Search Engine Journal.

Casey Zeman posts five ways to brand your (new) YouTube profile at Social Media Examiner.

Lauren Indvik reports that Pinterest has become the top traffic driver for retailers via an infographic at Mashable.

Kaila Strong discusses seven creative ways that your brand can use Pinterest at ClickZ.

Pamela Vaughan posts “the ultimate guide to mastering Pinterest for marketing” at HubSpot.

Jeff Bullas posts a how-to on taking advantage of the latest Facebook updates at his blog.

Neil Patel posts no less than 100 ways to become a Twitter “power user” at Quick Sprout.

Brian Solis discusses five trends that will change CRM at his blog.

Finally, Corina Mackay posts three new apps to help you manage your social networks at Social Media Examiner.

photo credit to Miguel Virkkunen Carvalho